- Industry: Medical devices
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Boston Scientific Corporation develops, manufactures, and markets medical devices used in various interventional medical specialties worldwide.
A long, thin, flexible tube with wires and metal bands or electrodes that is inserted into the groin vein and threaded up through the blood vessel and into the heart under X-ray guidance. Mapping/diagnostic catheters are used to identify the location of the abnormality, and ablation catheters are used to destroy the tissue in the affected location.
Industry:Medical devices
Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity. During catheterization, fluids are injected or withdrawn for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. See also cardiac catheterization.
Industry:Medical devices
Bleeding from an artery in the brain, caused by a head injury or a burst aneurysm.
Industry:Medical devices
A blood clot (thrombus) that forms and blocks blood flow in an artery that supplies blood to part of the brain. It is the most common cause of stroke.
Industry:Medical devices
The movement of blood through the vessels. Circulation is induced by the pumping action of the heart, enabling the flow of nutrients and oxygen through the body.
Industry:Medical devices
A diagnostic test that uses special X-rays and contrast dye to show different areas in the body.
Industry:Medical devices
Refers to conditions that are present at birth, regardless of their cause. Congenital heart defects are malformations of the heart or of its major blood vessels that are present at birth.
Industry:Medical devices
